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China: Blogger Zhou Shuguang a.k.a. "Zola" barred from leaving country, "potential threat to state security" - Boing Boing
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Rebecca McKinnon reports on 27 year-old blogger Zhou Shuguang, aka "Zola," whom the Chinese government have banned from leaving the country as a "potential threat to state security." Snip:
Chinese Activist May Nab Nobel Peace Prize
This may turn out to be China’s year, but not quite in the way that Beijing hopes.
Among the candidate names floating around for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize is Chinese dissident Hu Jia, who promotes democracy, AIDS awareness and environmental issues
Internet access a human right, minister says
The internet is now so much an essential part of life and commerce that access to it can be seen as “a human right”, says Culture and Heritage Minister Judith Tizard.
She made the remark on launching a book on the history of the internet in New Zealand,
Internet rights should be more prominent in IGF
There’s some concern that basic human rights to free expression, privacy, and other civil liberties might be getting pushed too far away from the center of the UN Internet Governance Forum’s (IGF) meeting agenda. The IGF will meet in Hyderabad, India the
Olympics Media Freedom Commitments Violated
The Chinese government continues to block and threaten foreign journalists despite repeated promises to lift media freedom restrictions ahead of the Olympic Games, Human Rights Watch said in a new report
Push to bring down the Golden Wall
Armidale Amnesty is joining other Amnesty groups from around Australia to campaign for an end to media and internet repression
ISummit 2008/Internet Bill of Rights
Internet Bill of Rights discussion at ISummit 2008
Repression of Activists Continues Unabated (Human Rights Watch, 12-6-2008)
Western countries looking to increase engagement with Syria should know that Syrian authorities continue to arrest, try, and harass political and human rights activists, Human Rights Watch said today.
Discussion of religious questions now banned at UN Human Rights Council
The UN Human Rights Council is not allowed to judge religions, according to president Doru Romulus Costea of Romania. Criticism of Sharia law or fatwas is now forbidden. This ruling follows attempts by the Egyptian and Pakistani delegates
HRW Issues Report about Human Rights in China
Human Rights Watch has issued its report to the organization's council expressing special concern about four countries, including China.
Tracking Genocide by Remote Sensing
The Remote Sensing Project at Yale University’s Genocide Studies Program has just released a 50-page Working Paper entitled “Tracking the Genocide in Darfur: Population Displacement as Recorded by Remote Sensing.”
Chinese Police Hold Freelance Journalist Incommunicado
Feng Zhenghu, a Shanghai-based rights defender, online writer and freelance journalist, has been detained in a week that has seen significant backsliding in the climate for freedom of expression in Chin
The Dynamic Coalition on the Internet Bill of Rights
An informal, open group of organizations, companies, governments and individuals that feel the need to work together for a better definition of the rights and duties of the individual users of the Internet.
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